Maya Angelou quotes about change

most black revolutionaries, most black radicals, most black activists, do not really want change. They want exchange.

It was the awakening summer of 1960 and the entire country was in labor. Something wonderful was about to be born, and we were all going to be good parents to the welcome child. Its name was Freedom.

My son could rely on my love, but never expect our lives to be unchanging.

I am convinced that most people do not grow up. We find parking spaces and honor our credit cards. We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old.

Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking.

What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.

I looked up the road I was going and back the way I come, and since I wasn’t satisfied, I decided to step off the road and cut me a new path.

Good manners and tolerance, which are the highest manifestation of style, can often transform disaster into good fortune.

Remember, you were looking for a job when you found the one you just lost.

Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled.

Nature will not abide a vacuum, and because we have let the positive particulars go, they have been replaced with degeneracy, indifference, and vice.

We should pluck up the courage to win, to win back our finer and kinder and healthier selves.

Actions can only reproduce themselves.

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware.

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.